Civic cowardice

A tiny State of fewer than five million people with a few major hospitals must dump patients in corridors and on trolleys or put them on endless waiting lists before failing to diagnose a potentially fatal disease. Maybe we’re just an abject race whose moaning and groaning is a cover for our civic cowardice?

Civic cowardice
Wed, 28 Nov, 2007 - 00:00
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PJ McElhone

Castle Ave

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